03.01.10
The United Natural Products Association (UNPA) Salt Lake City, UT, commended FDA action to recall five products illegally marketed as sports enhancing dietary supplements. Loren Israelsen, executive director, UNPA, commented, “This is a significant step to assure safety in the dietary supplement marketplace, and we commend Commissioner Margaret Hamburg and Deputy Commissioner Joshua Sharfstein for following through on their commitment to steer the agency toward stronger enforcement of the nation’s dietary supplement laws. It is clear to us that the five products the FDA recalled—Bromodrol, Dual Action Grow Tabs, Grow Tabs, Mass Tabs and Ripped Tabs TR—have been illegally marketed as dietary supplements, since they contain undeclared steroid substances, which under law are considered to be drugs.